In case you missed it, new
figures show President Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force has made more than
12,000 arrests and seized over 2,100 illegal firearms in its first year,
proving the Trump Administration’s tough-on-crime policies are working.
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Trump’s
law-and-order blitz marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects, guns in
blue city
Fox News
September 15, 2026
The Memphis Safe Task Force
has made more than 12,000 arrests and seized more than 2,100 illegal firearms
in its first year, Fox News Digital learned exclusively, as the Trump
administration points to the operation's enforcement record amid a drop in crime
across the city.
[...]
The task force, launched one
year ago Tuesday, brought federal, state and local law enforcement agencies
together after President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum
directing the deployment of National Guard personnel to Memphis. The intervention
came as Memphis, a Democratic-leaning city in solidly Republican Tennessee,
confronted one of the nation’s most severe violent-crime problems, with FBI
data showing the city had the highest violent-crime rate in the country in
2024.
The operation has led to a
36% decrease in overall crime year over year, with motor vehicle thefts down
57%, robberies down 43%, murders down 44% and aggravated assaults down 27%, Fox
News Digital learned.
In 2025, overall crime in
Memphis was down 28% compared to 2024, data reviewed by Fox News Digital
showed.
[...]
Memphis was grappling with a
severe violent-crime crisis in the years before the task force launched, with
homicides surging to 397 in 2023 from 301 a year earlier, according to the
Justice Department. From coast to coast, violent crime surged in 2020 and
remained elevated in the years immediately afterward, as the nation grappled
with coronavirus lockdowns that year and widespread protests and riots.
The Memphis operation is
part of a broader Trump administration effort to deploy federal law enforcement
resources to cities facing high levels of violent crime. The administration has
also launched a federal law-enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., where
officials say the effort has produced a sharp decline in crime.
